My treatment includes an eclectic approach towards the goal to help your child become an effective, confident communicator. Initially and throughout treatment, I encourage and promote individualized communication methods using assistive technology. By providing a means to communicate with the world immediately and successfully, I hope to establish trust and confidence within your child to know his or her thoughts are important and your child can and will be heard.

While supporting your child, your family and the schools with assistive technology, I establish targets based on an in-depth analysis of your child’s speech sounds which includes investigations into which sounds he or she already has and what new sounds are easier and harder to produce in a variety of simple or complex words. Therapy sessions are highly individualized and based on the principles of motor-learning, which include short moments of intense drill practice to establish successful motor movement along with variating targets to establish the learning of the new skills. New speech sounds and patterns are developed with the family and child’s needs as a priority. To increase your child’s confidence and attitude in therapy, play is also incorporated where your child can practice new sound movements in a positive, structured atmosphere.